Antonym: adversary. Similar words: support, supportive, in support of, reporter, reportedly, opportunity, suppose, supposing. Meaning: [sə'pɔrtə(r) /-'pɔː-] 
n. 1. a person who backs a politician or a team etc. 2. someone who supports or champions something 3. a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose 4. a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve) 5. a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise.
n. 1. a person who backs a politician or a team etc. 2. someone who supports or champions something 3. a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose 4. a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve) 5. a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise. 
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61. Jones was converted from an opponent to a supporter during the meeting.
62. Furthermore, the fans themselves, although recognising the different types of football supporter, will not think in terms of a career structure.
63. Bob Dole had seemed a firm supporter, but that was then.
64. A staunch supporter of the Good Friday agreement, he is the first victim of the Troubles since July.
65. From tea maker to charity supporter Dear Editor I am writing to make readers aware of the registered charity.
66. Mr Ridley, who was not involved in any of the original decisions, is no supporter of the nanny state either.
67. At 41, Craig Benson would seem to be the stereotype of a Steve Forbes supporter, which he decidedly is not.
68. Away from the Bank, he is a staunch supporter of Dundee.
69. He held numerous cabinet posts and was an ardent supporter of Mrs Thatcher.
70. Wagner was a Nazi supporter. Nevertheless, he is an important part of musical history.
71. He was not an opposition supporter but an ardent disciple of MrMilosevic's Socialist party.
72. An avid Everton supporter, Christopher was nominated for the award by a teacher.
73. For 30 years, he was a paid-up and apparently loyal supporter of its policies.
74. This was one reason why I became a postnatal supporter for a year and why I trained as a breastfeeding counsellor.
75. I was an ardent admirer and supporter of MacBrayne's buses: they opened up the north-west for me.
76. Reform, a friend to, i.e. a supporter of the electoral Reform Bill passed in 1832.
77. Harwell's director, Sir John Cockcroft, was an enthusiastic supporter of fusion research.
78. Rhetorically,[http://sentencedict.com/supporter.html] he still presents himself as a supporter of bipartisanship.
79. He arrived at his supreme court office despite government claims that he had already been replaced by a Mugabe supporter.
80. Gary has had an interest in nature since childhood and is an enthusiastic supporter of conservation and environmental issues.
81. I do not want to stand up and be counted as a supporter of those demands.
82. A former supporter of the Najibullah regime who had switched sides, Dostam was now a mainstay of the mujaheddin government.
83. One supporter said Mr Norris would not be able to support this policy.
84. And will the sartorially-conscious supporter have to pay for a new wardrobe in which to battle the carabinieri?
85. The odd Militant supporter appears at the conference rostrum and is easy to spot.
86. Hope was an ardent supporter of the Society, and was its President from June 1859 until its dissolution after 1878.
87. Stone was then, as now, a fully paid-up Thatcher supporter, and a tireless polemicist.
88. She is a strenuous supporter of women's rights.
89. an ardent supporter of European unity.
90. He was an effective supporter of reform.
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